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Five reasons weight-loss jabs alone won’t help get people back to work

Lucie Nield, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, argues that the Government's plan to trial weight-loss injections to help unemployed people return to work doesn’t address the many core reasons why weight gain and unemployment occur in the first place.

Published by The Conversation
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School of Medicine and Population Health at ISPOR Europe 2024

Our colleagues are back on the road and travelling to Barcelona for this year's ISPOR Europe conference, taking place from 17-20 November. As ever, we have a packed programme of presentations from our staff and students.
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Mobilising NIHR research in public health planning and delivery

Episode 33 of the Communicable Research Podcast examines the topic of mobilising the NIHR's research portfolio to aid public health planning and delivery.

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Green Social Prescribing

Episode 32 of the Communicable Research podcast is out. This time, we went outdoors to talk about Green Social Prescribing with Dr Annette Haywood.
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ScHARR's Communicable Research - Episode 7 - Suzanne Ablard - Advanced Practitioner roles within the NHS

In this episode we're talking to Suzanne Ablard who works as a Research Associate within the Health Services Research section at ScHARR.

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Faroe Islands superspreader event: why transmission among the triple-vaxxed shouldn’t alarm you

Andrew Lee has previously received research funding from the National Institute for Health Research. He is a member of the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Society for Public Health.

| The Conversation
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Creating the CUREd dataset – a real world linked data for UEC

Taking the first step in understanding the challenges faced by the system inspired a team of researchers, data specialists and statisticians led by ARC UEC Theme Lead, Professor Suzanne Mason at the University of Sheffield.

| NIHR
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Do lateral flow tests detect omicron? Your questions answered

Just as we thought we understood COVID testing, along came omicron and raised a whole new bunch of questions. We asked Dr Andrew Lee, a reader in global public health, to answer them.

| The Conversation
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New Publications from ScHARR for November 2021

ScHARR publishes over 400 new journal papers every year across our four sections - Public Health, Health Economics and Decision Science, Design, Trials and Statistics and Health Services Research.